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Eddie

There were a couple of minor factual errors that I noticed - the Beethoven string quartets tossup gave the central theme of the Op. 131 as being in A minor, instead of A major. The tossup on Penderecki named the opening piece as Polyphonia , instead of Polymorphia . The Shostakovich tossup gives the...

Eddie

Eddie, I don't think that bonus part needs to be entirely rewritten. (Actually, I thought it was totally fine, but that may just be me.) Anyway, I think all Ben's saying is that you might consider using the actual word "double-function form." The addition of "one-movement" is go...

Eddie

This piece shares its key and genre with Alban Berg’s Op. 1. For 10 points each: [10] Name this 1853 piano piece whose four interconnected sections serve as both an exposition, development, recapitulation, and as the movements of a symphony. ANSWER: Piano Sonata in B minor [DONT READ THIS OUT LOUD ...

Eddie

Muriel Axon wrote:Matt Jackson hates America: The hottest of takes

What is going on in the comments section of that article?

Eddie

Our first pre-season preview of the teams in Southern California. In a nutshell, Arcadia has some serious rebuilding to do, while La Jolla, Rancho Bernardo, and Westview look to ascend to the top.

Eddie

I'm posting on behalf of local SoCal cool guy Vincent Doehr, who will be reading a visual architecture packet in the style of Eyes That Do Not See, only all architecture. There's thirty-five (35) questions and we'll read it on Google Hangouts at 7:15 PM PDT (10:15 PM EDT) so we can enjoy its group ...

Eddie

I'm posting on behalf of local SoCal cool guy Vincent Doehr, who will be reading a visual architecture packet in the style of Eyes That Do Not See, only all architecture. There's thirty-five (35) questions and we'll read it on Google Hangouts at 7:15 PM PDT (10:15 PM EDT) so we can enjoy its group ...

Eddie

I'm posting on behalf of local SoCal cool guy Vincent Doehr, who will be reading a visual architecture packet in the style of Eyes That Do Not See, only all architecture. There's thirty-five (35) questions and we'll read it on Google Hangouts at 7:15 PM PDT (10:15 PM EDT) so we can enjoy its group ...

Eddie

I'm posting on behalf of local SoCal cool guy Vincent Doehr, who will be reading a visual architecture packet in the style of Eyes That Do Not See, only all architecture. The packet strongly skews towards modern architecture. There's thirty-five (35) questions and we'll read it on Google Hangouts at...

Eddie

There's a feng shui problem / repeat in Rounds 7 and 8. [10] This leader of the Seven against Thebes escapes the war by riding on the immortal horse Arion . Later, it is prophesied that the Epigoni cannot take Thebes until the death of this man. [10] Poseidon is the father of Arion, an immortal, tal...

Eddie

Congratulations to Im Tempo eines gemächlichen Ländlers. Etwas täppisch und sehr derb, who defeated The Know Nothings in a one-game advantaged final (340 - 165)! http://www.socalquizbowl.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/heyboo.png took third place. Thanks to all teams for coming. Unfortunately, we wer...

Eddie

Full prelim stats: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/3062/stats/prelims_%28round_1_-_7%29/ Full playoffs stats: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/3062/stats/playoffs_%28rounds_8_-_10%29/ Full finals stats: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/3062/stats/finals_%28round_11%29/ Full ...

Eddie

Vincent Doehr plans to run a visual architecture side event during lunch, lasting approximately thirty (30) minutes. Here is his post about the event: During the lunchtime of Susan, the Illusion of the Plan side tournament will be made available. The tournament consists of six slides featuring notab...

Eddie

Hello, friends.

The field for this event is now closed. There are two (2) teams on the waiting list. I have just sent out a logistics email to all eight (8) registered teams. We look forward to seeing you at Susan.

Eddie

Hello, folks. I'm reiterating a message I just sent out by email to all past and hopeful tournament hosts, but I'm calling the tournament schedule for next year as FULL . NAQT State Championships, UC San Diego's fall middle school tournament, Madison's winter middle school tournament, Triton Winter,...

Eddie

To expand on Corry's statement, this isn't a brand new innovative idea - most sets, including NSC or NASAT, have some very broad answer lines (e.g. "France" or "dogs") repeated across multiple subjects. We're just putting this out there so there aren't any nasty surprises. Of cou...

Eddie

I would think a good compromise measure (at least for moderators that have hard times pronouncing things) would be to have the pronunciations mixed in with the text, with the actual spellings placed after the answerline. An example, using the tossup Andrew Hart embedded, is below: Congenital decrea...

Eddie

Schoenberg was my favorite tossup of the set! His chamber symphony is a very important piece and (as far as I know) this is the first time it has been tossed up! On the Carnival tossup, the Dvorak clue seemed a little early. I'm glad I was able to write your favorite tossup! I think you hit the nai...

Eddie

Of the myth tossups, I think the only one that didn't really work was the "leaping into the sea" tossup. Perhaps more players can confirm (or deny) this, but from my perspective it seemed like something where even people with lots of knowledge would have a hard time figuring out what you ...

Eddie

Hello, friends. I wrote much of the questions in music and mythology, with much supervision from my helpful editors. As it was my first time writing in this quantity for a tournament of this magnitude significance, I am quite interested in feedback from players or readers on topics from overarching ...

Eddie

Something that I should have caught during proofreading, but: This piece begins with horns playing a unison descending F-flat, D-flat, C, B-flat, and includes a second-movement Andantino semplice in the mediant key of D-flat major. For 10 points each: The first note in the horn passage is an F, not ...

Eddie

Is there a copy of the schedule anywhere? Not the format schedule, but things like what time Round 1 started, what time lunch is, etc.

Eddie

For a concrete example of what happens when there's too much quizbowl for a circuit to handle, SoCal 2014 - 2015 is a textbook example. We had sixteen (16) regular season tournaments, one (1) nationals-prep tournament, one (1) novice tournament, and two (2) middle school tournaments. As a consequenc...

Eddie

Also, the NSC had a four quarter format until 2010--one of the reasons given for the original format was that a single format would disadvantage teams from states with a different format. Well, three "quarter"s. As I understand it, the original NSC format was something of a Great Compromi...

Eddie

How about something like "Quizbowl is a fast-paced question-and-answer competition on core academic subjects in which you work as a team to buzz in on questions and score points." ? I don't think the comparison to Jeopardy isn't so much of a bad thing, though - "it's like Jeopardy, bu...

Eddie

This is a really good point. I was focusing more on NHBB competitions this year, that's why I couldn't really show up to many quiz bowl tournaments this year. Also, I think some of my teammates wanted to come to tournaments but we wound up not signing up (either from lack of interest or other commi...

Eddie

This is a really good point. I was focusing more on NHBB competitions this year, that's why I couldn't really show up to many quiz bowl tournaments this year. Also, I think some of my teammates wanted to come to tournaments but we wound up not signing up (either from lack of interest or other commi...

Eddie

A different type of discussion, but what did the readers at this year's NSC think of the formatting and style of answer line in the set? The choice of font for the set appears to be similar, if not the same, as the font used for the past two ACF Nationals, and I thought it was rather easier on the e...

Eddie

Please note that the registration fee has been updated to reflect the fact that I forgot to factor in a number of other expenses. Additionally, the field is now capped at eight (8) teams.

Eddie

Jason Cheng wrote:Triton Pre-Nationals on DII ICT

Those are some nifty stats!

Here's the post on our website; it's basically the same as the email I sent out to hosts and captains just a moment ago.

Eddie

Howdy, y'all. In an effort to pull Southern California out of the insulated hellhole that is our Facebook group and website, we will be using this forum to manage a calendar of regular season tournaments in the Southern California region in the 2015 - 2016 season. If you are interested in hosting a ...

Eddie

REGISTERED TEAMS: 1. Year of the Four Juniors (Rahul Keyal, James Malouf, Chaitanya Kore, Shivank Nayak) 2. Im Tempo eines gemächlichen Ländlers. Etwas täppisch und sehr derb (Aseem Keyal, Charlie Mann, Erica Liu, Vincent Doehr) 3. http://www.socalquizbowl.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/heyboo.png ...

Eddie

Hello, friends. I am pleased to announce Susan, an open mirror of HSAPQ's National All-Star Academic Tournament (NASAT) in Southern California this summer, 27 June 2015, on the luxurious campus of Westview High School in sunny San Diego. The tournament director for the event will be Eddie Kim. Infor...

Eddie

I definitely understand the frustration with pronunciation guides; I also find it annoying when I lose punctuation or words in a forest of PGs. But do understand that they are very helpful to a wide swath of readers (perhaps less so at HSNCT, but even then, my understanding is that there's a big (a...

Eddie

Full prelim stats.
Live playoff stats.

Eddie

Another fun thing we do at practice sometimes, which I think I found back on QBWiki a while back, is "double or nothing" on bonuses, where you hear the lede-in to a bonus and decide whether to play it normal, or to go "double or nothing." If you go "double or nothing," ...

Eddie

Another fun thing we do at practice sometimes, which I think I found back on QBWiki a while back, is "double or nothing" on bonuses, where you hear the lede-in to a bonus and decide whether to play it normal, or to go "double or nothing." If you go "double or nothing," ...

Eddie

We played Two-Headed Monster at practice tonight, and it was definitely a blast, especially when one of us buzzed near the giveaway of a tossup that talked about "she," "slain," and "Tigris and Euphrates," only to have his teammate confusedly answer "Isis."

Eddie

We played Two-Headed Monster at practice tonight, and it was definitely a blast, especially when one of us buzzed near the giveaway of a tossup that talked about "she," "slain," and "Tigris and Euphrates," only to have his teammate confusedly answer "Isis."

Eddie

Complete prelim stats.

Complete playoff stats.

Complete superplayoff stats.

Eddie

A sentence from Round 4, TU 13 reads:

Round 4, TU 13 wrote: One of these gods brought Psyche to Eros’s palace and used Apollo’s discus to kill their mutual love interest, Hycathinsus.

"Hycathinsus" should read "Hyacinthus."

Eddie

Part II of Round 11, Bonus 5 reads: [10] In the Argonautica, Medea does this action to her brother Absyrtus to slow the pursuit of her father Aeetes. Later, she convinced Pelias’s daughters to do this to him after doing this to a ram and putting it in a cauldron. ANSWER: cut ing his body into pieces...

Eddie

I was really happy that the Shostakovich TU clued from pieces significant in academia or in the concert repertoire, rather than from the same old tired clues about the 7, 11, or 13. I feel like there's a bit of a difficulty cliff between the clues about the 14 and the 7, and maybe you could put in a...

Eddie

I noticed a small factual error in the first part of Round 6, Bonus 20, which reads: [10] Name this female warrior, the rival of Aife. A hero later killed Connla, the son he had with this woman. ANSWER: Scathach [or Skatha] Connla is the son of Aoife, not Scathach. EDIT: There's another confusion in...

Eddie

A very minor typo, but the question on France (Round 9, TU 11) is missing a quotation mark after the word "flower." The clue currently reads:

Round 9, TU 11 wrote: Recurring “statue,” “flower, and “love” themes...

Eddie

Could I see the TU on Brahms? I'm curious what piece the lead-in was referring to.

Eddie

A minor thing, but it was odd to hear of Laud Humphreys going undercover as a gay man even though he was actually gay. I Am Not A Scientist, but as far as I know there are no organic compounds called 'ilides' or 'ilydes'. There are only 'ylides,' for which the typical pronunciation is ['ɪ.lɪd], wit...

Eddie

There was this random tournament in HS with a three period format, with the second period being delightfully unique. In this format, there were four "lightning rounds" (10 short parts) in the second period, each with different categories (like Art, Baseball, Presidents, etc.). The captain...

Eddie

In SoCal, every tournament still has food in the morning. Sweet, sweet Costco blueberry muffins... Somebody needs to make this a national thing again, ASAP. A lot of tournaments in SoCal also sell food during lunch. Usually something simple like pizza from Costco, but it saves a lot of time for peo...

Eddie

I don't know if it was because there was something up with my computer, but all of the questions that said to read the grey highlighted text slowly didn't actually have any grey highlighted text. I managed to figure out that I was supposed to read all of the equations and score transcriptions rathe...

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